PRISON TO FREEDOM: HUEY P. NEWTON

In this interview, Black revolutionary Huey P. Newton recounts the horror of police brutality and the unfair trial that put him behind bars.

He was the leader and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary organisation that fought for Black self-defence, social justice and community empowerment.

He was arrested for the murder of a police officer in Oakland in 1967. However, he argued he was acting in self-defence because the police officer attacked him first. After several trials, he was eventually released in 1971, and he continued his revolutionary political activism.

He was born in Louisiana in 1942 and moved to California in 1945, where he studied law and philosophy, and then formed the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in 1966.